Features
The 5 1/2" version is for greater stability and cutting performance. Precision ground cutting edges without bevel for flush cutting the finest of wires e.g. in electronics and precision engineering. Precisely shaped tips also cut adjacent wires from 1/64" (0.20 mm) diameter. Opening spring and opening limiter user-friendly handle width. Extremely smooth movement for minimum operator fatigue. Cutting edge hardness (approx. 64 HRC). Special tool steel, oil hardened in multiple stages. With opening spring and opening limiter. Pliers burnished. Handles with multi-component grips.Knipex Tools was started in 1882 by Carl Gustav Putsch who set up a shop in the family home specializing in making pliers. To this day, Knipex still specializes in making high quality pliers and in addition to that, they have created some really cool and innovative pliers designs. Knipex specialty pliers include the pliers wrench, the Alligator and Cobra pliers and the Cobolt bolt cutters – each with their own specialties and features that set them apart from common brands. Knipex’s workmanship is also among the best, their tools are made of some of the strongest tool steel available and it’s a difference you can feel. Knipex Tools help you get a grip on whatever job you need to do, so if you need pliers or gripping tools, Knipex is it.